“i say, while everyone is trying to jump to mars for no clear
reason, we gently embed a ship into a carbony asteroid and figure
out how to live off the carbon and then spend 5 generations hopping
from one to the next, progressively figuring out how to live further
and further from the sun, eventually leaving the oort cloud entirely
and settling up to live off the tidal forces a satellite feels when
orbiting a rogue gas giant…”

“whenever I have my brain problems more or less sorted out I turn
into a slightly different person with slightly different problems
and my coping mechanisms break down and I have to start all over again…”